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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [‎556] (587/1050)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (523 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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556 DIW—DIY
The trade of the place which has dealings with Najaf and Baghdad as well as with
Basrah, is insignificant and is confined to the export of ordinary agricultural and pastoral
produce and to the import of a few common articles. Even this small degree of trade
thT^nrth ? 0n A enshing 9t : t ' tlements u P on the Dagharah canal, some way to
the north-east, and on properties of the Dairat-as-Saniyah at some distance off
Ihwamyah is connected with Hillah by a double line of telegraph and with Samlwah
by a single hne. The town is constituted as a mumcipality.
d I wan I yah—
The name of a muqata'ah in Jazirah ( 7 .t>.), in the Baghdad district.
DIWANlYAH—
"rt™ 6 0£ f 0n th ® rigto of the Tigris on the Qararah-Suwairah
section. It is situated between Bustan and Lajj, but on the opposite bank.
BIYABI (T ribe)—>
A tribe of the Hajar district of Hadhramant, Southern Arabia. Their territory
extends along the coast for about 37 miles, from Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sanam to Ras-al-Ghusain,
and inland northward of .Tabal Hamam. The tribe numbers about 800 and its people
bear a bad character.— {Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
DIYlDLBAH (T ribe)—
See 'Anizah.
PI YAH AM—
See Samawah (Qadha).
BIYAHlN (T ribe)—
See Mutair.
DIYALAH—
This njer, coming down from the Persian frontier north-east of Baghdad City
Tiari^ t S u, Pe f the ^zetteer except at its mouth, which opens into the
Tigris at a point 10 miles south-east of Baghdad in a direct line and over 20 miles
distantfrom it by river. Just above the confluence the banks of the Diyalah are united
by a boat-bridge of 16 pontoons divided into four sections, which are connected bv
''l^i k C /i J 1 * 1S J* 2 feet lon 8. 12 feet wide, 6 feet deep and flat bottomed. Except
at the bridge, where the approaches though ramped are difficult for wheels, the banks
(in this part of the Diyalah) are mostly precipitous and rise about 30 feet above the
stream. For two miles from the bridge on the left bank the country is much out up
by water channels, and beyond this again the country is open desert—cultivable but
Thutr^ a Ct tT« the end 0f the brid S e on the bank are about
30 huts and on the left bank 15 : these compose a small village called Divalah which is
inhabited by mixed tnbes, chiefly Zubaid of the Al Bu Khattab section. From the
beginning of December to the middle of April the Diyalah is navigable by native
craft as far as the town of B aqubah, but during the rest of the year, partly in conse
quence of the water drawn off by important canals, it is a shallow stream of no conse-
^Azizlyali Qadhas a PP are y serve3 33 a boundary between the Baghdad and
DIYALAH—
See Azizlyah (Qadah).
diy A lah—
bebw QaSrah! a left ' bank tract ' and also distributary, of the Tigris {q.v.) a few
DIY AN (A hl )—
A section of the Aulaki tube ; see Aden Protcctorase.

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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.

The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.

A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.

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1 volume (523 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.

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